Draw-bar-rod pocket.



Nn. 670,958. Patented Apr. 2, |90l.

L W. KENNER.

DRAW BAB ROD POCKET.

(Application Bled Oct. 24, 1900.) (No Model.)

[Nl/ENTOR: W1 T/VESSES JOHN W. KENNER, OF CONNELLSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

DRAW- BAR-ROD POCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 670,958, dated April2, 1901. Application filed October 24, 1900. Serial No. 34,143. (Nomodel.)

.To cir/ZZ whom it mty concern,.-

Be it known that I, JOHN W. KENNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Connellsville, in the county of Fayette and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Draw-BarRod Pocket, ofwhich the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to dra w-bar-rod pockets, and has for its object toproduce a device of this kind which can be quickly and cheaply appliedto the ordinary car and which will protect the rod from damage by thecontact therewith of the contents of the car, and more particularly whenthe car is being unloaded.

l/Vith these objects in view my invention consists in the improvedconstruction and novel arrangement of parts of a draw-bar-rod pocket, aswill be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, in which the same reference-numeralsindicate corresponding parts in each of the views in which they occur,Figure l is a longitudinal sectional View of a coal-car provided with mydraw-bar-rod pocket. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the pocketdetached. Fig. 3 is an end view of the same. Fig. et is a transversesectional view, and Fig. 5 is a plan View of the draw-bar.

In using cars in which the load is discharged through the bottom thedraw-bar which passes across the hopper through which the load isdischarged is frequently bent or buckled by the Weight of the materialor by the material becoming wedged between the bar-and the sill of thecar. This necessitates considerable trouble and expense in restoring therod to its normal condition, and to avoid this damage I have invented apocket which consists of a protector which is secured at its ends to thehopper and will prevent the material from coming in contact with thedraw-bar.

My improved pocket l is formed from metal and may be cast in a singlepiece or from two pieces of metal 2 2, which are secured together bymeans of rivets 8. The pocket is preferably angular in cross-section,and when made from two pieces of material each piece is flangedlongitudinally upon its edges, as shown at 4, and securely rivetedtogether.

Each end of the pocket is provided with an inclined liange 5, which isadapted to be secured to the ends of the hopper or chute dat the bottomof the car. If desired, the flange may be at a short distance from theend of the pocket, so as to permit the end of the pocket projectingthrough the opening in the side of the hopper, although it can be safelysecured in position by the flanges alone, owing to the inclination ofthesides of the hopper to which they are secured. When arranged in thisposition, it is evident that if the draw-bar 7 be passed through thepocket from end to end the bar can be used in the ordinary manner andthat it will be entirely protected from contact with the contents of thecar,th us preventing the possibility of the bending or damaging of thedraw-bar.

The pocket may be secured in position when the cars are manufactured orit may be applied to the cars already in use, and by forming each of thepieces comprising the pocket of two parts of different lengths andjoining them together so as to cause their adjacent ends to overlap eachother the pocket may be more readily secured to the car, and especiallywhen the fiange is to be a short distance from the end of the pocket andthe pocket is forced through the draw-bar opening in the side of thehopper or chute. lt is also evident that the lower portion of the pocketmay be omitted by making the upper portion strong enough to prevent itsbeing damaged by the material in the car.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is r l. As a new article ofmanufacture, a drawbar-rod pocket comprising a shield having at itsrespective ends inclined flanges which are removed from the ends of theshield so that 'the latter project therefrom, substantially asdescribed.

2. Asa new article of manufacture, a drawbar-rod pocket comprising ahollow casing having at its respective ends reversely-inclined attachingplates or anges which are removed a short distance from said ends sothat the latter project therefrom, substantially as described.

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3. Asanew article of manufacture, a drawat each end being removed ashort distance bar-rod pocket comprising a casing formed of from the endof the casing so that said ends two sections having flanges formed alongtheir project theref rom, substantially as described. lo

longitudinal edges, securing means passing JOHN W. KENNER. 5 through theflanges of the two sections, said Witnesses:

sections having on their respective ends re- JAMES ALBERT SIVITS,

versely-inclined attaching-plates, the plates HOMER MAY.

